InqBnB2: Inquisitiveness Below and Beyond the Sentence Boundary 2 University of Amsterdam Amsterdam, Netherlands, December 18-19, 2017 |
Conference website | https://sites.google.com/site/inquisitivesemantics/workshops/inqbnb2 |
Submission link | https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=inqbnb2 |
Submission deadline | October 1, 2017 |
This workshop brings together researchers working on inquisitive semantics and closely related topics. We are particularly interested in research that studies how inquisitiveness is generated and how it projects in sentence composition, as well as how inquisitiveness interacts with other aspects of meaning. There are many questions relevant to the workshop, including, but not limited to:
- Which operators (connectives, quantifiers, modals, conditionals) generate inquisitiveness?
- How do these operators project the inquisitive content of their arguments?
- How does inquisitive content interact with informative content in compositional semantics?
- How do conventions of use interact with inquisitive content?
- In which ways is pragmatics sensitive to inquisitive content?
- What kind of discourse anaphora are licensed by inquisitive expressions?
Submission Guidelines
Authors can submit an anonymous abstract of at most two pages, with 1 inch margins and 11pt font. When you submit your abstract, you will be asked to provide a short summary of at most 200 words in the EasyChair submission form. Note that the field for entering this summary is labeled "abstract" in EasyChair; this is not to be confused with the full two-page abstract, which needs to be provided separately as a PDF. The 200 word summary should clearly indicate subject matter and conclusions (it need not be included in the full two-page abstract). The workshop is independent of the Amsterdam Colloquium and thus, it is possible (albeit not recommended) to submit the same abstract to the workshop and the colloquium.
Committees
Programme committee
- Inquisitive semantics group at the Institute for Logic, Language and Computation
Organizing committee
- Jakub Dotlacil
- Floris Roelofsen
Venue
University of Amsterdam
Contact
j.dotlacil@gmail.com
Sponsors
We gratefully acknowledge financial support from the Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research (NWO, VIDI Grant) and the European Research Council (ERC, Starting Grant SH:680220).